Week of 11/27

Mrs. Ciavarelli came to read to us before Thanksgiving break!

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and enjoyed the time off with your family and friends. Here are your reminders for the week:

- We are starting Unit 3 in reading this week. There will now be 12 Magic Words instead of 10. We will also being learning long vowel patterns. Please review with your child at home.

- The first grade was lucky enough to have an online reading program donated to us! It is called Reading Eggs and we will be using it in school and at home. More information, along with your child's login information will be sent home this week.

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return on Wednesday.

- The first trimester ends this Friday. Report cards will be sent home in mid December.

- If you would like to be a Mystery Reader on Thursday, 12/7 or 12/14 please let me know!

- Here are some dates to mark down for December:
             - No school - 12/8
             - Breakfast with Santa - 12/10
             - Christmas Concert K-4 - 12/13
             - Bowling field trip with 8th grade buddies - 12/21

Have a great week!
Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 151

practice Magic Words

Math: page 34

Tuesday

Reading: page 150

practice Magic Words

Math: page 35

Wednesday

Reading: page 152

practice Magic Words

Math: page 36

Thursday

Reading: page 153

Math: page 37

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We start Chapter 13 this week and learn about season of Advent.

Reading
Story: "At Home in the Ocean"
Target Skill: Author's Purpose (Persuade, inform, entertain)
Phonics Skill: Long A, digraph -th, endings (ed, ing, s, es)
Grammar: Proper Nouns
Magic Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, me, my, who
Spelling Words: that, them, then, with, this, bath, seven, and, here, she

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will practice it on a number line and also with 10 frames. Please be sure to practice flash cards!

Week of 11/13

Mrs. Gompers and Michael's little brother, Jax, came and read to us last week!

We had a beautiful Flag Folding Ceremony last week to honor all of our Veterans.

Dear Parents,

November is certainly flying by! I can't believe this is our last full week before Thanksgiving break. The kids have grown so much since September and it is exciting to see their reading skills develop and grow. We will start learning long vowel patterns when we return from Thanksgiving break. Here are your reminders for this week:

- Test folders will be sent home tomorrow. Please sign and return on Wednesday.

- There will be a Religion test on Chapter 4 on Thursday. A study guide will be sent home today.

- There will be a Reading and a Spelling test on Friday.

- If you could donate a jar of pasta sauce this week for Mercy Hospice it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

- Handbag Bingo in this Thursday night at 7:00pm in the Parish Center. Hope to see you there!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday
Religion: review for test

Reading: page 140

practice Magic Words

Math: page 31

Tuesday
Religion: review for test

Reading: page 143

practice Magic Words

Math: page 32

Wednesday
Religion: review for test tomorrow

Reading: page 145

practice Magic Words

Math: page 33

Thursday

Reading: review story for test tomorrow
study for spelling test tomorrow

Math: play First in Math for 15 minutes

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will finish up Chapter 4 and have a test on Thursday.

Reading

Story: "A Cupcake Party"

Target Skill: Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)

Phonics Skill: Short u sound and final blends -mp -nt, -nd, -st, -sk

Grammar: using a, an and the. Synonyms and antonyms

Magic Words: eat, give, one, put, small, take, sing, all does, they

Spelling Words: sun, bus, but, run, give, take, does, they, dust, jump

Math
This week we will start our subtraction unit. We will learn that subtracting means to "take away." We will learn how to write number sentences and use pictures to help us solve problems. We will also use number lines and ten frames to help us solve problems.

To review for our addition test last week we worked in groups and practiced adding 3 addends together! The kids used our "Box, Add, Move, Add" to help them remember the steps. They did a great job!

Week of 11/6

Mrs. Griesser surprised us last week! Edward's little brother, Will, even read us a book!

Dear Parents,

I'd like to thank each of you for coming in last week and meeting with me at conferences. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at any time. We have another busy week ahead of us! Here are your reminders:

- If anyone would like to mystery read this Thursday, 11/9, 11/16 or 11/30 please let me know!

- We will have our monthly Mass on Wednesday, November 8th at 8:45. We are starting early because Sr. Liz's funeral Mass will be held right after. All are welcome to join!

- SKS Got Talent is Friday night at 7:00pm in the gym!

- There will be a Math test on addition this Friday. We will review all week and a practice test will be sent home for homework on Thursday.

- We will celebrate Veteran's Day this Thursday by having a special ceremony in the school yard at 8:30am. If you have any family members or friends who served in the armed forces please invite them! If they cannot attend you can send in a picture or index card with their name on it so we can honor them and/or those who are no longer with us.

- Kids may accessorize their uniforms with red, white and blue on Thursday.

- If you have any pictures from field trips, Halloween, etc. could you please share them with Mrs. Ryan, our yearbook coordinator. You can email the pictures to the following address: sksyearbook@sksschool.org. Thanks for your help!

Have a great week!

Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Reading: page 135

practice Magic Words

Math: page 27

Tuesday

Reading: page 137

practice Magic Words

Math: page 28

Wednesday

Reading: page 134

practice Magic Words

Math: page 29

Thursday

Reading: page 136

Math: complete review for test tomorrow

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion

We will continue working on Chapter 4 this week and learn about Jesus and his work among the people.

Reading

Story: "A Cupcake Party"

Target Skill: Story Structure (characters, setting, plot)

Phonics Skill: Short u sound and final blends -mp -nt, -nd, -st, -sk

Grammar: using a, an and the. Synonyms and antonyms

Magic Words: eat, give, one, put, small, take, sing, all does, they

Spelling Words: sun, bus, but, run, give, take, does, they, dust, jump

Math

We will continue working on addition and make more flash cards this week. We will practice using ten frames and number lines to add and continue adding 3 addends. We will have an addition test on Friday.